"Something unexpected happened. Just bear with it for a while."
"...Alright. I'll stay here. Call me anytime if you need anything."
Raiden Mei pressed her lips together, but in the end, she did not continue questioning him.
Mei might be a little willful in daily life, but at critical moments, she still chose to trust Gwen.
In the brief exchange between Gwen and Mei, everyone else had also gathered around Gwen, their faces filled with concern.
However, seeing that Gwen seemed to be enduring pain, no one questioned him directly. Instead, they turned their attention to Bishop Otto, who was slowly approaching from the side.
"Bishop Otto, what happened to Gwen?"
Yolandale was the first to speak, her concern plainly evident.
"You already know that Miss Yorktown is not merely human, and that her true body is the historical aircraft carrier Yorktown."
Otto studied Gwen and Yorktown, stroking his chin with one hand as he pondered.
"When Miss Yorktown first arrived here, her ship body was critically damaged. If she had not been on the slipway, there would have been almost no chance of survival.
Over the past half month, Gwen used his own power to keep Miss Yorktown alive, while the shipyard worked overtime to repair her ship body.
During that time, although they did not carry out any large-scale upgrades out of caution, they did modify certain things that had become completely obsolete.
If I am not mistaken, they should now be enduring the pain caused by that."
"Pain..."
Kiana turned her gaze back to Gwen, whose eyelids were trembling slightly, and muttered unconsciously as she thought.
"Yes. Although no large-scale upgrades or replacements were made, the engineers still directed the workers to patch and partially replace the damaged hull, refurbish the deck, and replace some equipment whose